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Steven Spielberg Hires 'Kingdom of the Crystal Skull' Writer For 'Indiana Jones 5′http://z1073.com/steven-spielberg-indiana-jones-5-writer/
http://z1073.com/steven-spielberg-indiana-jones-5-writer/#commentsFri, 18 Mar 2016 19:47:42 +0000http://screencrush.com/?p=294717Continue reading…]]>When the Indiana Jones 5 news broke, my immediate question was who Steven Spielberg was going to hire to write the script. With George Lucas seemingly out of the picture (his name was nowhere to be found in the announcement), having a solid writer on board to work on a script would seem to be the most important first step...

]]>http://z1073.com/steven-spielberg-indiana-jones-5-writer/feed/0Paramount PicturesNever Get Out Of Bed, The First Trailer for Steven Spielberg's 'The BFG' Is Herehttp://z1073.com/the-bfg-trailer/
http://z1073.com/the-bfg-trailer/#commentsWed, 09 Dec 2015 14:30:22 +0000http://screencrush.com/?p=280971Continue reading…]]>It must be the witching hour because The BFG has arrived!

]]>http://z1073.com/the-bfg-trailer/feed/0Disney StudiosA 'Back to the Future' Producer Wanted to Retitle the Film 'Space Man From Pluto'http://z1073.com/back-to-the-future-space-man-from-pluto/
http://z1073.com/back-to-the-future-space-man-from-pluto/#commentsThu, 22 Oct 2015 15:00:51 +0000http://screencrush.com/?p=274060Continue reading…]]>In October 1984, when Back to the Future would’ve been in early-development stages, a producer gave a friendly suggestion to remedy one of the biggest flaws in the project. The script was “terrific”, everything was fine, but that title. Wouldn’t something along the lines of Space Man from Pluto have a smoother flow, make more sense to audiences, and convey what the movie’s actually about much more succinctly?

]]>http://z1073.com/back-to-the-future-space-man-from-pluto/feed/0Universal Pictures'Jurassic World' Review: The Park Is Open and Full of Dumb Peoplehttp://z1073.com/jurassic-world-review/
http://z1073.com/jurassic-world-review/#commentsWed, 10 Jun 2015 12:57:32 +0000http://screencrush.com/?p=251958Continue reading…]]>When all you care about is money, bad things happen. That’s the message of Jurassic World, where greedy theme-park executives hoping to spike attendance engineer the “Indominus Rex,” a genetically-modified dinosaur that immediately turns on its creators and runs amok. Designed as a cautionary tale about the dangers of building a meaner, badder monster purely for the sake of profits, Jurassic World works equally well as a cautionary tale about doing the same thing in movies. All of the rationalizations provided by Jurassic World’s employees — “Consumers want them bigger, louder, more teeth.” “Somebody’s gotta make sure this company has a future!” — could have been taken directly out of the mouths of the studio executives who approved this gene splice of a reboot and a sequel. Their creation — the Indominus or the movie, there’s basically no difference — is as advertised; huge, mean, and visually striking. But this experiment is not without consequences.

]]>http://z1073.com/jurassic-world-review/feed/0'Bridge of Spies' Trailer: Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg's Cold War Thriller Looks Mighty Coolhttp://z1073.com/bridge-of-spies-trailer/
http://z1073.com/bridge-of-spies-trailer/#commentsFri, 05 Jun 2015 16:17:46 +0000http://screencrush.com/?p=251920Continue reading…]]>When Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg last made a war film, they produced Saving Private Ryan, which was nominated for 11 Academy Awards, and features what’s widely considered one of the greatest battle scenes ever captured on film. They’ve worked together since, including on Catch Me If You Can, one of the best movies of either man’s career, but Bridge of Spies might be considered a kind of spiritual sequel to Ryan. That was Hanks and Spielberg’s World War II picture. This is their Cold War one.

]]>http://z1073.com/bridge-of-spies-trailer/feed/0Disney'Jaws' Is Coming Back to Theaters For Its 40th Anniversaryhttp://z1073.com/jaws-40th-anniversary/
http://z1073.com/jaws-40th-anniversary/#commentsThu, 28 May 2015 16:59:42 +0000http://screencrush.com/?p=250516Continue reading…]]>On June 20, 1975 a movie about an angry fish opened in about 500 theaters around the country. It was called Jaws, it was directed a guy named Steven Spielberg, it was scary as hell, and it changed the world forever. Its unique release strategy (wide instead of limited), intense television marketing campaign, and record-breaking box office essentially created the summer movie season (and made Spielberg a household name). 40 years later, regardless of its impact, Jaws remains a masterpiece, and a much better and more interesting movie than the vast majority of so-called summer blockbusters that it birthed.

]]>http://z1073.com/jaws-40th-anniversary/feed/0Universal15 Facts You May Not Know About 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'http://z1073.com/raiders-of-the-lost-ark-facts/
http://z1073.com/raiders-of-the-lost-ark-facts/#commentsThu, 26 Mar 2015 13:03:56 +0000http://screencrush.com/?p=239355Continue reading…]]>There’s a running joke in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade that Indy took his nickname from the family dog. That joke has some truth to it though because as George Lucas was developing Raiders of the Lost Ark, he actually named the character after his dog, Jones (the “Indiana” was a riff on Steve McQueen character Nevada Smith). Coincidentally, the same dog was the inspiration for Chewbacca in Star Wars. Need more Raiders of the Lost Ark facts? Throw us the idol and we’ll throw you the latest episode of You Think You Know Movies!

]]>http://z1073.com/raiders-of-the-lost-ark-facts/feed/0Oscar Winners Thank Steven Spielberg More Than Anyone Else, Including Godhttp://z1073.com/oscar-winners-steven-spielberg-thanks/
http://z1073.com/oscar-winners-steven-spielberg-thanks/#commentsFri, 20 Feb 2015 21:35:48 +0000http://screencrush.com/?p=233497Continue reading…]]>We all watch the Oscars for different reasons. Some watch for the sheer spectacle. Some watch to see if the movies they like actually win something. Some watch so they can drunkenly criticize what everyone is wearing. But in the end, it all comes down to all viewers doing the exact same thing: watching people thank other people for upwards of three hours. But which people have been thanked the most in 86 years of Oscar history? Someone with a lot of time on their hands decided to figure that out.

]]>http://z1073.com/oscar-winners-steven-spielberg-thanks/feed/0Ian Gavan, Getty Images'Gremlins' Remake Likely Dead, World Rejoiceshttp://z1073.com/gremlins-remake-dead/
http://z1073.com/gremlins-remake-dead/#commentsFri, 16 Jan 2015 20:45:35 +0000http://screencrush.com/?p=226104Continue reading…]]>A lot of your favorite 80s classics have been rebooted or remade into not-so-classics. It's the unfortunate state of the movie business. But, today, we get one back. The proposed ‘Gremlins’ remake, that was on the “fast track” as recently as this past April, may be as dead as a Gremlin in a hot tub.

]]>http://z1073.com/gremlins-remake-dead/feed/0Warner Bros.Microsoft's Spielberg-Produced 'Halo' TV Series Hitting Xbox in Early 2014?http://z1073.com/steven-spielberg-halo-tv-series-xbox-2014/
http://z1073.com/steven-spielberg-halo-tv-series-xbox-2014/#commentsMon, 16 Dec 2013 23:06:12 +0000http://screencrush.com/?p=159419Continue reading…]]>Earlier this year, Microsoft dropped a tremendous bombshell on the TV industry in revealing that it would follow in the footsteps of Netflix and Amazon to create its own original content, most notably a Steven Spielberg-produced 'Halo' live-action series, following so many cinematic stalls. No news has emerged of the effort since, but is Microsoft prepping its new series for an Xbox One launch in early 2014?

]]>http://z1073.com/steven-spielberg-halo-tv-series-xbox-2014/feed/0Microsoft'Jurassic Park 3D' Reviewhttp://z1073.com/jurassic-park-3d-review/
http://z1073.com/jurassic-park-3d-review/#commentsWed, 03 Apr 2013 18:30:08 +0000http://screencrush.com/?p=94445Continue reading…]]>You can buy replicas of Richard Attenborough's amber-tipped cane or you can listen to ten minute loops of Jeff Goldblum's oddball laugh but there's something you haven't been able to do in twenty years: hear the roar of a T. rex fighting two Velociraptors from thunderous, surround sound of big cinema speakers. Something you've never been able to do is see it in 3D or in IMAX. Until now. And you don't want to miss it.